Chinese name: Andean moving-crowned umbrellabird;
Andean cock-of-the-rock;
Scientific name: Rupicola peruvianus.
The Andean Fleuropter , also known as the Andean Crested Umbrella Bird , is a mesoform finchbird found in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains of South America. It is widely recognized as the national bird of Peru. The hermaphroditic heteromorphisms of this bird are quite pronounced: the male has a large saucer-shaped crown with crimson or bright orange feathers, while the female has a smaller crown and significantly darker plumage. The Andean crowned umbrella bird is 32 cm long and weighs about 210 g. IUCN Red List: No Danger (LC)
The male has a large saucer-shaped crown with crimson or bright orange feathers, black tail and flight feathers, pale grey shoulder feathers, and yellowish pecking;
The female has dark brown plumage, which is significantly darker than the male, and the crown is much smaller, with yellow embellishments at the tip of the bird's peck.
The color of the iris varies greatly, with different colors of different sexes and different subspecies, with males ranging from red to orange-yellow to bluish-white, and females from white to reddish to brown.
The Andean umbrella bird lives mainly in some deep valleys at altitudes of 500 to 2400 meters, or in forested mountains through which rivers flow. It is often active in medium to low forest areas, but also reaches higher areas in search of fruit and crosses open woodlands. Generally shy, he does not like to attract attention, and often catches a glimpse when he flies to different valleys.
It is dominated by fruits and insects, and occasionally preys on vertebrates such as frogs and lizards. They are also one of many species that follow the marching ants.
Throughout the process of breeding the next generation, the male devotes most of his energy to the display of courtship. They will gather on the court to compete with other males for the opposite sex, and after mating, they will complete all the work with the females. This tendency also means that they are polygamous. Males are very sensitive to external influences during courtship, so there are not many detailed research records. One of the records states that the males would both form in pairs and perform "confrontational demonstrations." These include face-to-face stooping, jumping, flapping wings, and sometimes even biting the beak, while making different rattling and grunting sounds. As the female approaches, the movements become more frequent and intense. The whole demonstration took place in crazy behavior and noisy clamor, interspersed with many strange shouts. One of the studies pointed out that courtship displays are related to light intensity, and when the light intensity in the morning is the same as the light intensity at noon, the courtship display also occurs in the morning. The nest is the sole responsibility of the female, mostly built on exposed stone veins or some burrows, and thickly coated with mud. One nest lays two more white bird eggs.
The Andean umbrellabird is widely distributed, found in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains of the South American continent, with a living range of 260,000 km², including Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.
The Andean packeye is one of two species in the genus Umbellifera, first described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1790. The genus name Rupicola comes from Latin, with the first half of rupes representing "stone" or "cliff" and the second half of cola representing "habitat", derived from the habit of these birds to inhabit and nest on stone walls. The word peruvianus means "from Peru", and the word peruviana is also found in older writings.
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